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Big Rapids

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Big Rapids

City and administrative headquarters of Mecosta County in west-central Michigan, 76 km/47 mi north of Grand Rapids, on the Muskegon River; population (2000) 10,900. Products include furniture and tools. The city is also a shipping point for locally grown potatoes, fruit, grain, and dairy products.

It is the seat of Ferris State University (1884). Rogers Dam, 11 km/7 mi to the south, impounds a lake used for fishing and boating.

History

Big Rapids was settled in 1853 on the site of a main rest stop on the Mackinaw Trail. Lumbering was the dominant industry during the boom and decline of the latter 1800s.



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